Engineering Director

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role...

🧠 You will...

• Own the strategy, execution, and outcomes for the Music area, including leading 0-to-1 product development.
• Build and scale multiple teams (and managers), organizing for clarity of ownership, high velocity, and long-term maintainability.
• Set a high bar for engineering quality, including reliability, scalability, observability, and pragmatic refactoring of critical systems.
• Partner with senior cross-functional leaders to co-develop roadmaps, OKRs, and success metrics; communicate progress and tradeoffs with transparency.
• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent; identify emerging leaders and coach managers and senior ICs to grow their scope and impact.
• Guide teams to run effective experiments and make data-informed decisions that move key business metrics

✅ You have...

• Proven track record as an Engineering Director (or equivalent scope) leading multiple teams/managers to ship complex, high-impact systems repeatedly.
• Experience in building products from idea to successful multi-team projects.
• Strong technical judgment across one or more domains, with the ability to coach managers and senior ICs through ambiguous, critical decisions.
• Experience establishing high engineering standards for quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effective at communicating up, down, and across functions.

⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...

• Experience leading teams in game studios and operate live games as a service.
• Experience leading both product and platform/infrastructure teams and knowing when to invest in foundations vs. features.
• A history of developing senior managers and future directors; recognized for building strong leadership benches.
• Expertise guiding data- and experiment-driven product development at scale.